From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 01:19:24 BST
Erin and all:
Erin said:
did you notice how each character changed a little
at the end. Is it at all possible that Pheadrus
could have changed too.
I guess I see Pirsig stirring pot with all three
characters. But to you Phaedrus is perfect and
there is no room for growth. Phaedrus is a character to me. Pirsig is the
author of that character. I put the quote from Pirsig about he was
disappointed
that people thought he was Pheadrus. That he
was Pheadrus, Rigel, and Lila. Therefore I do put a
little more weight on what I hear comes out of his mouth
directly/ what is said more recently.
dmb says:
More weight? Yea, if it were relevant to the question at hand, but I don't
see how this is related. Nobody disputes that Pirsig is the author, that the
characters are fictional. As far as I know, nobody is saying that
intellectual people are pure, without biological or social dimensions. As I
understand it, by definition, intellecutal values are built on the lower
ones and so there is no such thing as a purely intellectual person. All
intellectuals will have a Lila and a Rigel within them, so to speak. But
none of this has no bearing on what you not ask me about Lila's status. What
Pirsig says about Lila in the book, that "intellectually, she's nowhere" is
not contradicted by any of that. Its not even the same topic.
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